ENTARTETE KUNTS
is a playful bastardization of the German term for “degenerate art.” It
is the title lovingly bestowed upon a series of annual group
exhibitions organized in Portland, Oregon near the Northwest coast of
America between 2007 and 2009. These public displays explored the
obscure fringes of contemporary underground art and the incendiary
intersections of so-called extreme music and graphic design, from the
comically grotesque to the solemnly demonic. This book celebrates those
exhibitions with a diverse collection of work by all 42 original
participants from around the world. The result is a provocative
retrospective and a cursory introduction to 50 years of metal and punk
inspired art.